17 December 2015

Creative Wrapping For Kids - The Magic of Giving with Sellotape

Sellotape have partnered with The Honeypot Children’s Charity for a second year running this Christmas, to help raise vital funds for both young carers and the vulnerable aged just 5-12 years of age. They are also sharing the magic of giving by donating lots of lovely gifts and I had the pleasure of receiving some toys to wrap creatively to send to them.

Hopefully these will help to put smiles on faces come 25th December.

We received a bumper craft box of paper, card, felt string and a variety of Sellotape products, including the very useful On-Hand Dispenser, along with a pretty pink scooter and a Play Doh set as presents.

Generally I just add a tag to usual gifts for family and friends, maybe adding a little matching bow, but I decided to try and make these a little more special for the recipients, as they are so incredibly special too.

Every child deserves a magical Christmas regardless of what they face at home and Sellotape believe this too. Honeypot is the only UK charity that provides consistent respite support - that's certainly worthy of some extra effort.

Reindeer are a favourite winter animal of the Mini Mes so I used the paper to create one while wrapping the Play Doh which was rather an unusual shaped toy.

I cut the brown paper to size and laid it down flat then placed the set in the centre.

I pulled the paper up and around the sides of the gift, folding and flattening where necessary, and then twisted it slightly before tying it with thick, iridescent ribbon. This is similar to how I would usually wrap a bottle of wine!

I then split the paper above the ribbon by tearing it in two to make antlers.

I drew on eyes with a pen and added a red circle of card with Sellotape as the nose.

Not only is there now the excitement of wanting to know what surprise is inside but it will look incredibly cute until opened! I was rather pleased with how this turned out so I've wrapped a few other gifts the same for Minxy and Jamster.

The scooter is packaged in a large rectangular box and aimed at a child slightly older so I decided to make an origami windmill with some holly stickers, use the Festive refill from the Sellotape dispenser to decorate it and make a little concertina Christmas Tree to stick on. I hadn't really attempted much origami before but I found it quite relaxing. The Mini Mes quickly learnt how to make these too!

To make the tree I folded a green piece of card in one direction and then back over in the other so it had a zig zag appearance once complete. I used Sellotape to tie one end together to form the triangular tree shape.

The felt icicle style ribbon was placed around the tree diagonally to represent tree lights and secured at the back with Sellotape.

This was stuck into place and a star sticker was added just above

The result...

I had a lovely time being involved in such an inspiring project and I hope the children at Honeypot get much joy from these two gifts along with others that they receive.